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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A03634	[An homelye to be read in the tyme of pestylence]	Hooper, John, d. 1555.	1553 (1553)	STC 13759; ESTC S118879	13,006	36

In Homelye to be read in the tyme of pestylence and a moste presente remedye for the same 〈◊〉 God Honour the Kynge 1. Pet. 2. To all Pastoures and Curates Wythin the Kinges Maiesties Diocesse of Worcester and Gloucester EAuyn as we be blinde and unthankeful for goddes fauourable mercies where with all he foloweth vs in health welth and prosperitie So be we blinde vnsensible for his most iust plages where with all he persequuteth and punisheth vs in sickenes scarsitie troubles And nowe emongest other tokens of his displeasure and wroth hath sente vs in dyuerse places one of the extreamest plages that euer he deuised to punishe man withall in this life the plage of pestilence For as mouche as he meaneth thereby not onely to kill and destroy the bodies of souche as by this plague he pourposeth to take out of this mortall lief But also wythout repentaunce and tourning to his mercy in Christe before death the soule of souche as departe from hence muste neades perishe by goddes iust iudgemente And not onlie this to be theande of souche as it pleaseth god to strike to death by this his seruaunte and messanger the plage of pestilence But also the like daunger of his displeasure remaineth to me and to all other that haue the cure charge of the peoples soulles in this the kinges Maiesties hoste noble Realme Ouer whom god and he hath made vs watche men and ouerseers too admonishe and warne the people of all daungers plages that god shall sende for their punishmente Incase we admonishe not in time the people commytted vnto oure charge of souche plages as for synne he pourposeth too punysshe vs wythall their losse and dampnatyon shalbe requyred at oure handes For the dyscharge of my selfe and alsoo for the beter instructyon of souche as haue cures wythin thys Diocesse of Worcester and Gloucester and yet not beste hable too dystharge them and farther more for the proffyte and saluacyon of the people emonges whome it maye please God too sende hys fearefull plague of pestylence I haue thoughte it niy boundon duetye seyng at all tymes I can not comforte the sycke my selfe too collecte or gather intoo some shorte sermonde or homelye a medycyne and moste presente healpe for all men agaynste the plague of pestylence And in thesame alsoo too prouyde some presente remedye for souche as shalbe infected wyth that desease And for the better vnderstandynge of the medycyne I wyll vse thys ordre that all Physycyons learned doo vse in theyr practyse of Phisycke Fyrste I wyll shewe the cheafeste cause of the pestylence And then what remeadye is beste too bee vsed agaynste it and to heale it when it hath infected anye manne And althoughe I wyll speake herein some what as other Physycyons haue doone yet because they haue spoken alreadye more then I canne in the matter thoughe it bee a greate deale lesse then the matter of the desease requyreth for none of them haue shewed anye ascertayned remeadye be theyr reason neuer soo good I wyll breafelye as by the way somewhat speake of thys desease as they doo But as a preacher of Goddes woorde and as a Physycyon for the soule rather then for the bodye intreate of the syckenesse and the remeadye thereof aftherthe aduyse and counsell of goddes woorde Whoo supplyeth all thynges omytted and not spoken of concernynge thys moste daungerouse plagues by souche as haue wroten besydes the scrypture of God theyr mynde touchynge thesame For in deede the chiefest causes of all plagues and syckenesse is synne whyche remaynynge wythin all menne worketh destructyon not onelye of the bodye but alsoo of the soule yf remeadye be not founde And wheare as Galien sayeth that Omnis pestilentia fit a putredme aeris that is too saye all pestylence commeth by the corruptyon of the ayer that bothe beaste and man drawynge theyr breathes in the ayer corrupte draweth the corruptyon thereof intoo them selues he sayeth well yet not ynoughe He sayeth alsoo verye naturally that when the ayer is altered from hys naturall eaqualitye and temperature to to mouche and intemperate heate and moysture pestylence is lyke then too raygne For as he sayeth in the same place that heate and moysture dystemperated be moste daungerouse for the creatures of the worlde yet that is not ynoughe As Ezechiel sayeth wheare as God sendeth all thies dystemperaunces and yet yf Noah Daniel and Iob were in the myddeste of them they shall be saufe Eauyn soo sayeth Dauid alsoo Though they dye at the ryght hande tenne thousand foulde and dye at the lefte a thousande fould the plage shall not touche hym that sytteth vnder the protection of the highest And where as reason hath many good and probable argumentes in thys matter touchynge the cause of pestylence that it should come some time by reason of souche humors as be in the body disposed and apte to corrupte then is the man quickelye by drawing and breathyng as well the corruption of hym self as y e infection of the ayer infected And that souche humors as be grosse and inclined to corruptiō riseth of yuell and immoderat diet and the infection taketh hys origynall and begynnynge from souche beastes carinnes and other lothsome bodies that rotte vpon the face of the earthe not buryed or els from moorishe standynge and dampyshe waters sinckes or other souche vnholsome moistures soo that towardes the faull of the leafe bothe the ayer that man lyueth in as alsoo mans bodye it selfe bee more apte and disposed to putrifaction more in y e time then in any other tyme for diuerse naturall causes These causes are to be considered as naturall and consonaunte to reason yet there bee reasones and causes of pestylence of more waight and more worthye of deape and aduysed considerations and aduertisementes then thies be And the more because they lye within man be marked but of very fewe and hide them selues secretely tyll they haue poysoned the whole man both bodye and soule For in dede phisicions that write medle with no causes that hurte man but suche as come into man from with out as the humors they saye take theyr infectyon from vnholsome meate and yuell dyet or els from the corruption of the ayer wyth souche lyke But our sauyoure Christe sheweth that oure corruptyon and syckenes riseth from within vs as I wyll declare hereafter in the causes that the scripture teacheth of pestylence and al other dyseases Requyringe you diligentlye to loke vpon the same and to reade it in your churches that the people may vnderstand both the cause of this goddes plage of pestylence and howe too vse them selues in the time of this sickenes or anye other that shall happen vnto them by goddes appointmente As god may be glorified in them and you and I discharged of our bounden dueties And they them selues that shal happen to be infected with the plage of pestilence and by the same be brought to death

absence Wherfore seing there is no certen remedy deuised by man neyther for suche as can not flee nor for thē that may flee we must seeke another medicine and healpe at goddes hande who can and wil preserue those that be whole and make them whole that be sicke yf it be expedyent for man and moste for hys owne honor The best preseruatyue therfore too kepe men from the pestylence is this that Moses speaketh of Let vs do sacrifice vnto the Lorde least we be striken with pestilence or swearde And Josua and Caleb toulde the people that a faythfull trust in the Lord was the best remedy for them which if they contempned they shoulde fynde that God there threatened speakynge too Moses Howe long wil this people be vnfaythfull I wyll strike them with pestilence and consume thē Also Dauid knewe that thonely remedye to kepe Jerusalem from the plage was that god shoulde tourne hys wrath from the Citie for his sinnes and the sinnes of the people But now to bryng the remedy the better to the vnderstandynge of the people I will shewe it by thys place of Saincte Mark. Repent ye and beleue the gospell In y e whych wordes is contained thonelie medicine against the pestilence and also al other diseases if the text be wel and aduisedly considered wherein Christe vseth a very naturall ordre to heale all diseases For as the remedy naturallye of all deseases is taken from contrary condicions and qualities that worketh and maintaineth y e sickenes So doth Christ in these wordes declare that the preseruacion and healpe of sinne and wickednesse the cause of pestylence proceadeth from vertues and condicions contrary to the quallities and nature of souche thynges as preserue and kepe this wycked sinne sicknes in man As when a man is faullen into sickenes by reason of to mouche coulde and moysture the remedye muste bee gathered naturallye from the contrary heate and drouthe For thys is a commune and true principle contraries be holpen by their contraries If nature waxe too coulde it muste bee holpen wyth heate If it be to hotte it muste be cooled If it be to moyste it muste be dried If it be to drye it must be moysted If it be to coulde and moyst it must be heat and dryed If it be coulde and drie it must be heat and moisted If it be to hotte and moyste it muste be cooled and dryed If it bee hotte and drye it muste be cooled and moysted These be veary naturall remedyes if they bee well vsed wyth true proporcion and conuenyente vse after phisicke And as these bee good and naturall for the bodye wherein the pestilence dwelleth Euen so is Christes medicyne in the fyrste of Saint Mark a more present and certain remedye for the soule that keapeth the body in lief to remoue or to remedye the synne of man whyche is the cause of all plages and pestylence Incase too remoue synne the cause of syckenes thys medicyne of Christe bee vsed as thother is vsed too remoue theffecte of synne whyche is syckenes As the bodye that is fallen into syckenes by to muche colde or moysture eyther by nature that orygynallye was corrupted by Adam eyther by oure owne accustomed and doynge of synne it muste be made whole by the heate of repentaunce and trewe faythe in the merytes of Christe Jesus who dyed for the synnes of the worlde For thys is a trewe and moste certen principle of all relygyon one contrarye muste remedye thother seyng Adam by his fault beganne oure death by sinne it muste be cured by Christe that is wythoute sinne And where as our own workes be synne and fylthynes where with all god is dyspleased we must desire the workes of Christ to worke the good wil and fauour of our heauēly father again And where as by our own wittes wysedomes religion and lerning we haue cōmitted ydolatry supersticion we must now by goddes wisdome goddes word his most true religion amende our faultes and turne to true and godly honouring of him Farther where as our own inuencyons hath broughte vs from the knowledge of god the remedye is y e goddes worde must bring vs to him againe For against all vntruthes brought in by man the worde of god is thonelye remedie The experience therof we may haue plainly in the scripture where as for the saluacyon of the worlde god appoynted Christe hys onely sonne to be borne and also to be opened vntoo the worlde that by him it might be healed of all sickenes and sinne as it appereth by S. Mathew and other of the Euangelistes Yet was the world so blind and so corrupted with synne that Christe was borne and opened vnto them and they of the world nothing the better as it appereth in S. Mathew Where as S. Jhō y e Baptist in few wordes whych be these Repente ye for the kyngdome of god is at hande sheweth the remedy of all sinnes and syckenes and the meanes how to receyue and take the same remedy The remedy was onlye Christe as he sayeth in S. Jhon and also in S. Mathewe And the meanes to come by the remedy was to repent as ye shall know farther hereafter when ye knowe what repentaūce is The same may you also see in S. Jhon in the Dialoge betwene Christe and Nicodemus A man after the iudgement of the world that knew lief death sickenes health the cause of thone and also of thother as well as any learned man emonges al the congregatiō and churche of the Jewes yet in deed as ignoraunt of his own sicknes and also so farre from y e true knowledge how to come to health as an ignoraunt man might be And the cause was that he vnderstode not the nature of sin as it is estemed by the worde of god neither y e remedy thereof y t god hath prescribed and appoincted Wherefore Christe tolde him by playne wordes excepte he were holpen and cured of his desease and sicknes by contrarye remedyes he could neuer vnderstand nor come by his helth and no meruaile for he knew the sicknes of synne noo otherwise then hys forefathers and the worldly men knew sinne That is too saye knew suche sinnes as were knowen to reason and done by the body and outward action of men And the same knowledge had he and no more of the remedye againste the syckenes of synne And as his fathers and the world thoughte so dyd hee that the merites of their sacrifices and the well doing of thē selues was a sufficient remedye to heale them both in body in soule Where vpon Christ most mercifully pitieth y e poore man wyth contrarye knowledge both of sicknes and y e remedy therof sheweth that the desease man is infected wyth goeth farther then reason and the vtter action of the bodye and occupyeth y e soule of man with concupiscence rebellion frowardnes contumacie againste god Wherefore he calleth all y e man